Title
Electrophoresis of large DNA with a sparse zinc oxide nanowire array.
Abstract
We developed a simple inexpensive method to integrate ZnO nanowires into
a microchannel using a combination of aqueous solution synthesis of ZnO
nanowires and photolithography, which is used as a nanowire-embedded microfluidic
device. The density of ZnO nanowires inside the microchannel
is controllable by simply changing the concentration of the seed solution.
We conducted a study of dynamic interactions between electric field driven
!DNA and a single isolated ZnO nanowire using single molecule spectroscopy
technique. The study shows that the hooking time is exponentially dependent
on b/Rg, in agreement with a prediction by simulation work. We also
find that the hooking probability for small values of b/Rg increases as the
electric field strength increases.
Description
University of Minnesota M.S. dissertation. May 2010. Major: Materials Science and Engineering. Advisors: Kevin Dorfman and Eray Aydil. 1 computer file (PDF); x, 73 pages. Ill. (some col.)
Suggested Citation
Araki, Noritoshi.
(2010).
Electrophoresis of large DNA with a sparse zinc oxide nanowire array..
Retrieved from the University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy,
https://hdl.handle.net/11299/92950.